Why the Big Five Personality Traits Are Important The five-factor model not only helps people better understand how they compare to others and to put names to their characteristics.

The Big 5 personality traits, aka the five-factor model, are extraversion (also often spelled extroversion), agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. Extraversion is ...

And if you want to become a better leader, it may help to cultivate certain personality traits. A meta-analysis of decades of leadership literature points to a model known as the "Big Five," which ...